Thursday, April 30, 2015

We
hope Marquette can pick up one of the top available players fromour rankings
here. Tonight we run through the competition -
ranking all the conferences competing with the Big East for bids, and ranking
both their teams and top 40 players.

It is tough to pick a winner with 10 teams in top 40, but with Diamond Stone teaming up with Melo Trimble in Maryland they have as good a chance as anyone a year after upsetting Wisconsin. Yogi Ferrell staying gives Indiana a chance to go deep a year after a very disappointing first round loss from a team with a lot of talent.

Natl Rnk

Conference

Team

Record

Raw

Value Add

4

Big Ten

B10

27.08

5

Maryland

28--7

49.65

38.16

9

Indiana

20--14

44.02

34.67

17

Michigan St.

27--12

36.11

32.61

22

Ohio St.

24--11

34.83

31.55

23

Wisconsin

36--4

29.84

30.67

30

Illinois

19--14

35.79

29.69

31

Iowa

22--12

29.85

29.07

32

Purdue

21--13

32.40

28.95

37

Michigan

16--16

33.29

28.14

71

Minnesota

18--15

20.98

22.87

80

Northwestern

15--17

24.91

22.12

86

Penn St.

18--16

21.31

21.67

173

Rutgers

10--22

17.03

14.88

183

Nebraska

13--18

9.79

14.05

Natl Rnk

Top 40 Players

Team

Ht

Yr

Value Add

4

Trimble, Melo 2

Maryland

6'3

2 So

10.02

11

Hayes, Nigel 10

Wisconsin

6'8

3 Jr

8.93

29

Uthoff, Jarrod 20

Iowa

6'9

4 Sr

7.93

37

Ferrell, Yogi 11

Indiana

6'0

4 Sr

7.65

41

Tate, Jae'Sean 1

Ohio St.

6'4

2 So

7.56

46

Valentine, Denzel 45

Michigan St.

6'5

4 Sr

7.47

58

Stone, Diamond

Maryland

6'10

1 Fr

7.18

65

Bates-Diop, Keita 33

Ohio St.

6'7

2 So

6.73

78

Mason, Nate 2

Minnesota

6'1

2 So

6.53

84

Koenig, Bronson 24

Wisconsin

6'4

3 Jr

6.49

105

Williams, Troy 5

Indiana

6'7

3 Jr

6.137

118

Layman, Jake 10

Maryland

6'9

4 Sr

5.92

142

Hill, Malcolm 21

Illinois

6'6

3 Jr

5.72

147

Edwards, Vince 12

Purdue

6'7

2 So

5.71

153

LeVert, Caris 23

Michigan

6'7

4 Sr

5.6

167

Thorne, Mike 12

Illinois

6'11

4 Sr

5.4

173

Loving, Marc 2

Ohio St.

6'7

3 Jr

5.36

175

Garner, Shep 33

Penn St.

6'1

2 So

5.35

190

Williams, Kam 15

Ohio St.

6'2

2 So

5.17

203

Swanigan, Caleb

Michigan St.

6'8

1 Fr

5.1

226

Hammons, A.J. 20

Purdue

7'0

4 Sr

4.99

249

Blackmon, James 1

Indiana

6'4

2 So

4.81

258

Olah, Alex 22

Northwestern

7'0

4 Sr

4.78

268

Cleare, Shaquille

Maryland

6'9

3 Jr

4.71

280

Showalter, Zak 3

Wisconsin

6'2

3 Jr

4.62

286

Brantley, Jaylen

Maryland

5'11

1 Fr

4.6

288

Nunn, Kendrick 25

Illinois

6'3

3 Jr

4.59

289

Hollowell, Jeremy

Indiana

6'8

3 Jr

4.541

316

Freeman, Deshawn

Rutgers

6'7

3 Jr

4.4

318

Costello, Matt 10

Michigan St.

6'9

4 Sr

4.38

328

Albrecht, Spike 2

Michigan

5'11

4 Sr

4.32

329

Davis, Rapheal 35

Purdue

6'5

4 Sr

4.31

331

Dawkins, Aubrey 24

Michigan

6'6

2 So

4.3

335

Shields, Shavon 31

Nebraska

6'7

4 Sr

4.26

340

Doyle, Ricky 32

Michigan

6'9

2 So

4.24

349

Irvin, Zak 21

Michigan

6'6

3 Jr

4.21

382

Davis, Deyonta

Michigan St.

6'9

1 Fr

4.03

492

Law, Vic 4

Northwestern

6'7

2 So

3.56

508

Morris, Carlos 11

Minnesota

6'5

4 Sr

3.52

533

Mathias, Dakota 31

Purdue

6'4

2 So

3.43

537

Forbes, Bryn 5

Michigan St.

6'3

4 Sr

3.41

These are the top 40 players in the conference based on the
rankings at www.valueaddbasketball.com.
The team rankings are 50% based on the sum of each team’s Value Add ratings and
50% based on last year (since better teams typically replenish after losing stars).
With over 4000 players projected in the database, we WELCOME all corrections in
the comments field.

Value Add was first introduced on www.crackedsidewalks.com, and
calculates how many points better each player is worth to his team over how
good they would be if he was replaced. The projections measure the standard
improvement in a player between his freshman, sophomore, junior and senior
seasons, and the evaluation of incoming freshman and JUCO players.